Application Startup Handshake: How Mountain, Cocoon, Sky, and Wind Bootstrap
The complete end-to-end process from launching the native binary to a fully initialized editor with running extensions.

Architecture, releases, and the road ahead.
The complete end-to-end process from launching the native binary to a fully initialized editor with running extensions.
How Maintain orchestrates cross-element builds with embedded scripting and type-safe configuration editing.
How Cocoon runs VS Code extensions in supervised Effect-TS fibers with module interception and gRPC-backed API shims.
Public domain licensing, no CLA, no copyright assignment - maximum freedom.
How Land runs unmodified VS Code extensions, and where coverage still needs validation.
How Land keeps the editor path local-first while sync and portal features stay explicit.
How Mountain uses Tauri for a native editor shell without bundling Chromium.
How we use Effect-TS for typed error handling across the editor core.